Odes

Horace

Horace. The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace. Conington, John, translator. London: George Bell and Sons, 1882.

  • Yet Jove had fear'd the giant rush,
  • Their upraised arms, their port of pride,
  • And the twin brethren bent to push
  • Huge Pelion up Olympus' side.
  • But Typhon, Mimas, what could these,
  • Or what Porphyrion's stalwart scorn,
  • Rhoetus, or he whose spears were trees,
  • Enceladus, from earth uptorn,
  • As on they rush'd in mad career
  • 'Gainst Pallas' shield? Here met the foe
  • Fierce Vulcan, queenly Juno here,
  • And he who ne'er shall quit his bow,
  • Who laves in clear Castalian flood
  • His locks, and loves the leafy growth
  • Of Lycia next his native wood,
  • The Delian and the Pataran both.
  • Strength, mindless, falls by its own weight;
  • Strength, mix'd with mind, is made more strong
  • By the just gods, who surely hate
  • The strength whose thoughts are set on wrong.